The Company You Keep (2012)

A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.

Director:

Robert Redford

Writers:

Lem Dobbs (screenplay), Neil Gordon (based on the novel by)

Stars:

Robert Redford, Brit Marling, Stanley Tucci

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert Redford	...	Jim Grant / Nick Sloan
Shia LaBeouf	...	Ben Shepard
Julie Christie	...	Mimi Lurie
Susan Sarandon	...	Sharon Solarz
Nick Nolte	...	Donal Fitzgerald
Chris Cooper	...	Daniel Sloan
Terrence Howard	...	FBI Agent Cornelius
Stanley Tucci	...	Ray Fuller
Richard Jenkins	...	Jed Lewis
Anna Kendrick	...	Diana
Brendan Gleeson	...	Henry Osborne
Brit Marling	...	Rebecca Osborne
Sam Elliott	...	Mac Mcleod
Stephen Root	...	Billy Cusimano
Jackie Evancho	...	Isabel Grant (as Jacqueline Evancho)

Storyline

After years in hiding, ex-Weather Underground militant, Nick Sloan aka Jim Grant, learns about his old compatriot's arrest for a bank robbery turned deadly in the 1970s, which he is wanted for as an accomplice. This puts the ambitious young local reporter, Ben Shepard, on the scent of a story that exposes Nick as well. As such, Nick goes on the run while taking his daughter to safety. With that accomplished, Nick stays one step ahead of the FBI while pursuing a faint hope to clear his name. Meanwhile, Shepard digs deeper into the case himself as he discovers the true complexities of another times' determined ideals even as Nick faces their consequences with another.

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Plot Keywords:

surveillance | on the run | 1970s | hiding | robbery | 

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Taglines:

You can't escape the past

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Genres:

Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 April 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sous surveillance

Filming Locations:

Fort Langley, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$131,718 (USA) (5 April 2013)

Gross:

$5,132,442 (USA) (26 July 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Voltage Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises, Brightlight Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

125 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital Datasat

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The final writer on the film was an uncredited Bill Holderman

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Goofs

In the closing scene a trolley bus passes by as Sloan and his daughter are walking. The scene was supposed to be in Detroit or possibly New York. Neither has trolley buses, but Vancouver, where it was filmed, does.

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Quotes

Jim Grant: I thought he died.
Donal Fitzgerald: Yeah we all died. Some of us just came back.

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Connections

References The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

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Soundtracks

Islands
Performed by Huddle
Written by Mark Satterthwaite (SOCAN) Clay Jones (SOCAN)
Published by Third Side Music Inc.
Courtesy of Huddle 2011

User Reviews

Peter Pan isn't alone!

The first thing I would like to say about this film is that it kept me entertained for two hours without once glancing at the clock.This in itself is no mean achievement in an age where many movies are unnecessary long. Hollywood obviously believes length is important if you want to be successful. Entertaining as it was I'm not so sure it was plot that kept me watching as much as the parade of veteran actors on display. A rather disparaging comment and maybe one that should have been reserved for the confusing historical context of the storyline itself. Being of an age that remembers the activities of the Weather Underground I was under the impression that their acts of terrorism had ceased by the time the Vietnam peace agreement was signed in 1973 since the Vietnam War had been the organisation's raison d'etre but in this film the Weather Men are still on a mission as we approach 1980. The film also has amusing parallels with another piece of Redford left-wing theatre, 'The Way we were'. In this 1973 film the Redford character, a talented screen writer, backs away from confrontation with the Communist witch-hunt in Hollywood and seeks respectability by compromising his ability and forsaking the woman he loves in the process. His 2012 alta ego also loses his passion for the cause and sacrifices love and a daughter by walking away, 'I grew up'. In both films Redford played people much younger than himself. I'm not sure what this says about Robert Redford but I think my wife summed it up when she remarked after watching an early scene in 'Company, 'He's not the father of that young girl, is he?' Exactly, a 75 year old unconvincingly playing somebody twenty years younger while in 1973 film he was a 36 year college student! Anyway,enough of Redford who otherwise gives a competent performance. It was good to see Julie Christie again and who along with Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon and Chris Cooper and still capable of teaching the young pretenders a thing or two. All in all and enjoyable and nostalgic evening's viewing.